Trent's Last Case
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LibriVox recording of Trent's Last Case, by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Read by Kirsten Wever.
This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent.
In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee Manderson for a large London newspaper. The victim is an unpopular and extremely powerful financial tycoon, who is murdered virtually within sight of his own house, at a time when it seems impossible that anyone there – to say nothing of all of its more than half dozen inhabitants – could have failed to see or hear the crime being committed.
As Trent pokes around, attention is focused on Manderson’s extremely troubled marriage, not least because Trent himself falls in love with Margaret Manderson, the widow of the murdered man. At the same time, Trent himself considers her to be at least complicit in the crime for much of the novel. The plot cannot be described further without spoiling the punch-line, as it were. Indeed, to the really clever detective fiction-lover, this is already almost saying too much.
Trent’s Last Case was on the “ten best” list of Rex Stout, author of the famous Nero Wolfe mysteries. Like Stout, Bentley has a fondness for complex plot twists of the “boxes within boxes” variety.
(Introduction by Kirsten Wever)
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- Addeddate
- 2011-07-16 20:10:54
- Boxid
- OL100020204
- Call number
- 5662
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- trents_last_case_kw_librivox
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- ABBYY FineReader 9.0
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- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
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- 0.0.14
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 7:43:23
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- LibriVox
- Year
- 2011
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Reviewer:
giribil
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June 4, 2013
Subject: good story
Subject: good story
It took me a while to get in to the story, and once into about the third chapter I was hooked. And the surprises kept on coming.
Reviewer:
ListeninginChicago
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October 18, 2011
Subject: Excellent!
Subject: Excellent!
Again, I am able to echo Mike's review! I should just listen to the books he rates high!
Kristen is an excellent reader and I hope to see her do many more mysteries for Librivox.
Kristen is an excellent reader and I hope to see her do many more mysteries for Librivox.
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mikezane -
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July 21, 2011
Subject: Very well read story
Subject: Very well read story
The summary covers the plot, and I will say the ending although a bit predictable did have a nice twist.
The reading was excellent, no tinny sounds or echoes. Enjoy!
The reading was excellent, no tinny sounds or echoes. Enjoy!
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